Mechanic called me dwn today and sed its a b16a out of a 95 crx and that it wont fit cos some of the gb mounts dont line up etc. He sed find out i dnt no wat to do? Need sum help and advice asap boys
true i got a 93 crx sir engine in myn all mounts up perfectly
op may need some b series engine mounts or eg6 engine mounts cause according to what hes saying eg6s engine sits differently
well on my gearbox in the car now ther is a mount on the side like faceing the radiator which goes to body near the airbox and is attached by 4 bolts into the GB and then on the b16a ther is no holes in the GB for the mounts???? anyone else no any places i can take it in eastern suburbs melbourne with more knowlege with this kinda shit? wanna get it up and going asap!!
now the quote has gone up and he rekons its a maaaaaaaasive job, didnt relise it was gunna cost this much to do a conversion lol its on my daily i shood have just put another stock motor in it and built a turbo setup???
You'll need after market mounts to swap from D series to B series. Hasport and/or Innovative make them and are popular choices. HASPORT - $333 USD Innovative - $299 USD
^^ just look for where it says '92-95 Civic B Series'
Other than that, the labour should be $1000 more or less. Add the $400 +/- for mounts, $1400 for B16A and the $XXX you paid for GBox and you should get the conversion done for like $3500 max?
Also, for a GOOD turbo setup you'll be paying many thousands on top of a B16A swap price.
If you buy a PoS turbo setup from Ebay for $1k and just bolt it onto a D you'd make over 100kw atw, but then you'll get bent over with insurance premiums, your turbo will probably shit itself asap, you might need a new ECU + tune for like $1k more, your fuel economy will be anus, you'll need new/good headers & cat-back to support the new exhaust demands and the list goes on bro.
Turbo is expensive if you do it properly (which I suppose is the only way) and if you take short-cuts on cheap setups you'll figure out sooner or later than it wasn't worth trying to save that money and the reliable N/A B16A swap would have been a better choice.
Since the mechanic hasn't finished the job you shouldn't need to pay him, right?
I advise sourcing a good set of the appropriate mounts and following through on the swap. You won't regret it.
Wishing you the best with this project mate. Keep us updated.
Last edited by dougie_504; 17-02-2010 at 10:00 AM.
Thanx heaps brother! Went down this morning and they just started on it, should hopefully have it bak monday then hopefully next week will be turbo and muching some ve gts's etc haha. all up the hole conversion is costing me about $3000 then i still got my old gear to get rid of so i guess its alryt? Is it a big difference going from the shity 1.5? to the b16a? One more thing....is there any cheap mods I can do myself to make it go better? like surely all those civics and crx's arnt stock makeing all that noise haha? like i said im only new to the jap game so i myt sound like an idiot but only 1 way to find out i guess?
lol huge difference
some good mods iv found to be is an injen cai, i/h/e and a vtec controller if u know a mech with a dyno makes a pretty good bang for buck mod i got like 4kw atw
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